Jesus Christ this is dark: colleges buy low-scoring SAT names from the College Board, and then *encourage students to apply knowing they will reject them* to boost their selectivity rating. One of a million kinds of perfectly legal ways poor people are fucked over every day.
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Replying to @herr_naphta @Molson_Hart
Is it really that difficult to look up admission stats (SAT/ACT quartiles say) and make the decision? If you cannot understand that you shouldn't apply to Harvard with 1200 SAT you're just plain stupid, and it's not Col. Board or Harvard's fault.
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Replying to @Pete21083 @herr_naphta
I agree with you with the following caveats: 1. We should still shame colleges who engage in this tactic 2. Our education system is so poor that it does not prepare people for the deceptive rigors of modern consumer life
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Replying to @Molson_Hart @herr_naphta
agreed re: 1, that's low-class move. On 2... I tend to think it's parents' responsibility to get their kids ready for life. We do outsource academics to schools, but we shouldn't rely on random people to teach our kids how to succeed in life. So it's not school's job.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Pete21083 @herr_naphta
Unfortunately, whether we like it or not, this country has parents who care about their next hit of heroin or check than their kids. Also, a lot of parents are themselves unable to teach this stuff because they don't know it. Therefore, we can either do what should be a parents
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responsibility or we can have a society where 25% of the population can't succeed because they lack basic skills. And this 25% will go on to have kids, and is even economically invented (govt money) to, so the cycle perpetuates. I'd rather have this class instead of literature.
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